The Totalization of Shadows, Part XXII
Whatever this means,
it doesn’t mean this,
“Farm boys wild to couple
With anything….with soft-wooded trees
With mounds of earth…mounds
Of pinestraw…” –Dickey, The Sheep Child
Whatever this meant,
It also didn’t mean this,
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life…”-Thoreau, Walden
it doesn’t mean this,
“Farm boys wild to couple
With anything….with soft-wooded trees
With mounds of earth…mounds
Of pinestraw…” –Dickey, The Sheep Child
Whatever this meant,
“I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms…”-Thoreau, Walden
It also didn’t mean this,
“Farm boys wild to couple
With anything….with soft-wooded trees
With mounds of earth…mounds
Of pinestraw…” –Dickey, The Sheep Child
posted by Yusef Asabiyah at 3:25 PM
2 Comments:
He wants to 'reduce life to its lowest terms' .. Why does he want to do that? And isn't that a violation?
This is precisely what I want to discuss.
-Y
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